Insight on the choice of sensitizers/dyes for dye sensitized solar cells: A review

A Sen, MH Putra, AK Biswas, AK Behera, A Groβ - Dyes and Pigments, 2023 - Elsevier
In this review, a discussion on renewable sources of energy with clear focus on solar cell
applications is presented. Especially, possible future directions for development of dye …

Rational design criteria for D–π–A structured organic and porphyrin sensitizers for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

JM Ji, H Zhou, HK Kim - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Increasing energy consumption worldwide and environmental concerns about global
warming have attracted great interest in the development of renewable and eco-friendly …

Heterocyclic nanographenes and other polycyclic heteroaromatic compounds: synthetic routes, properties, and applications

M Stepien, E Gonka, M Żyła, N Sprutta - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensionally extended, polycyclic heteroaromatic molecules (heterocyclic
nanographenes) are a highly versatile class of organic materials, applicable as functional …

Porphyrin cosensitization for a photovoltaic efficiency of 11.5%: a record for non-ruthenium solar cells based on iodine electrolyte

Y Xie, Y Tang, W Wu, Y Wang, J Liu, X Li… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are promising for utilizing solar energy. To achieve high
efficiencies, it is vital to synergistically improve the photocurrent (J sc) and the photovoltage …

Dithienopicenocarbazole as the kernel module of low-energy-gap organic dyes for efficient conversion of sunlight to electricity

Z Yao, H Wu, Y Li, J Wang, J Zhang, M Zhang… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
An electron-donor with a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon dithieno [2′, 3′: 2, 3; 3′′,
2′′: 10, 11] piceno [1, 14, 13, 12-bcdefgh] carbazole (DTPC) as the primary skeleton and …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular designs, synthetic strategies, and properties for porphyrins as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells

Y Zhang, T Higashino, H Imahori - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
During the past decades, many efforts have been made to develop porphyrin sensitizers for
dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) due to their easy fabrication, low-cost production, and …

Porphyrins containing a triphenylamine donor and up to eight alkoxy chains for dye-sensitized solar cells: a high efficiency of 10.9%

Y Tang, Y Wang, X Li, H Ågren, WH Zhu… - ACS applied materials …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Porphyrins are promising DSSC sensitizers due to their structural similarity to chlorophylls
as well as their tunable strong absorption. Herein, a novel D− π–A porphyrin dye XW14 …

Metal-free organic sensitizers with narrow absorption in the visible for solar cells exceeding 10% efficiency

D Joly, L Pelleja, S Narbey, F Oswald… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel family of six donor–acceptor type organic sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells
(DSSCs) is reported. The dyes have been designed to have outstanding light absorption …

In-depth understanding of the energy loss and efficiency limit of dye-sensitized solar cells under outdoor and indoor conditions

M Aftabuzzaman, S Sarker, C Lu… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Indoor photovoltaics (IPVs) have attracted great attention due to their potential applicability
as a power source to the emerging Internet of Things (IoTs)–low power electronic devices …

Multiply wrapped porphyrin dyes with a phenothiazine donor: a high efficiency of 11.7% achieved through a synergetic coadsorption and cosensitization approach

Y Lu, H Song, X Li, H Ågren, Q Liu… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Photocurrent (J sc) and photovoltage (V oc) are two important parameters for dye-sensitized
solar cells (DSSCs) to achieve high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). Herein, we …